Woof experienced his first hunt at 23 weeks old where the dogs caught a sow with one ear. Now nine weeks later the dogs bailed up this same sow. She was still looking skinny so I released her again. I had my four dogs on this hunt. Both Bro and Gus found this sow together and bailed her. I got a bit of footage before she tried to break but only made it as far as the 4wd track.
Last time I had her bailed Woof lost interest after ren minutes due to being very young. This time however Woof has been bailing my training boars almost every day. If he’s out of his kennel and the boars are up by the house Woof will be there barking at them. Watching him bailing this sow he is still cautious but quietly confident and happy to stand back and bark.
His finding is starting to come together as he is looking around with the other dogs up to two hundred meters away. As yet he has only found the training boars in the block but I am not expecting too much too early. He has good ears on him as he does listen to me and knows when to stop. This is something that a lot of pig hunters don’t train their dogs to do because they think a dog needs to attack a pig to stop it. The less pressure a dog puts on a pig the easier it is to settle them down.
In some of the footage I took you can see how I call both Bro and Gus out as they can’t help themselves sometimes but try and grab the pig. This is where the muzzles are such a valuable tool to stop the pig being bruised.
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